| EADGBE | |
| D | xx0232 |
| A x02220 |
| Bm | 224432 | |
| G | 355433 or 320003 |
| Em 022000 |
| Cm | 335543 | |
| Eb | 668886 |
| Gm | 355333 |
| Chorus: |
| D | |
| And it's a hard life |
| A | |
| For a man with | no wife |
| Bm | G | |
| Babe it's a | hard life |
| D | |
| God makes you | live |
| D | |
| But without it |
| A | |
| Don't | doubt it |
| Bm | G | |
| You don't even | have |
| D | |
| Your tears to | give |
| Verse 1: |
| D | |
| I wake up and I'm fine |
| Em | |
| With my dreaming still | on my mind |
| G | |
| But it don't take | long you see |
| D | |
| For the demons to | come and visit me |
| D | |
| And I've got my problems |
| Em | |
| Sometimes love don't | solve them |
| G | F#m | G | |
| And I end each | da | y |
| D | |
| In a s | ong |
| Chorus: |
| D | |
| And it's a hard life |
| A | |
| For a man with | no wife |
| Bm | G | |
| Lord it's a | hard life |
| D | |
| God makes you | live |
| But without it |
| A | |
| Baby don't d | oubt it |
| Bm | G | |
| You don't even | have |
| D | |
| Your tears to | give |
| Verse 2: |
| D | |
| And oh I'm a hard man |
| Em | |
| To live with | sometimes |
| G | |
| Maybe it ain't | in me |
| D | |
| To make you a | happy wife of mine |
| And maybe you'll kill me |
| Em | |
| Honey I don't | blame you |
| G | F#m | G | |
| If I was in y | our | place |
| D | |
| Maybe that's what | I would do |
| Cm | Bb | |
| But I ain't breathing, | Let me breath |
| Cm | Bb | |
| Let me go, | Let me leave |
| Gm | Cm | |
| I don't know but | I might lose |
| Eb | Fm | |
| I might bump my | head to blow a fuse |
| Cm | Eb | Bb | |
| So let me | go |
| Cm | Eb | Bb | |
| Lay d | own |
| Cm | Eb | Bb | |
| On my | own |
| Cm | Eb | Bb | |
| Let me dro | wn |
| Cm | Eb | |
| Let me go |
| F | |
| Go where you don't k | now |
| Outro: |
| Bb F Gm Eb Bb x2 |